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1916.65
Storm Clouds, Algonquin Park
Alternate titles: Dark Thunderheads; No title; No Title (Autumn Woods and Lake); Storm Cloud
Spring 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 7/16 x 10 9/16 in. (21.5 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in red wax crayon, 32 (circled); in orange/red pencil, R.A. Laidlaw; m.r. upside down, in orange / red pencil #58 / Mrs. Harness; l.m., in dark red pencil, "G" reinforced with blue wax crayon, Gift to R.W.L. / R.A. Laidlaw; c., in blue/black wax crayon, 13; u.l., label, Gift to R.A.L. Laidlaw / R.A. Laidlaw
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in red wax crayon, 32 (circled); in orange/red pencil, R.A. Laidlaw; m.r. upside down, in orange / red pencil #58 / Mrs. Harness; l.m., in dark red pencil, "G" reinforced with blue wax crayon, Gift to R.W.L. / R.A. Laidlaw; c., in blue/black wax crayon, 13; u.l., label, Gift to R.A.L. Laidlaw / R.A. Laidlaw
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto
R.A.L. Laidlaw, Toronto, by gift
Waddington's Toronto, 30 March 1979, lot 798
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1949 Laidlaw
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 32, as No title (possibly Lake & lowering sky).Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 114 (repr. col.) as Dark Thunderheads.Record last updated February 25, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Storm Clouds, Algonquin Park, Spring 1916 (1916.65)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=507 (accessed on May 19, 2025).